Flash Cards For First Quiz

Front 1

Of all the materials used [to make stackable blocks], the most adaptable, permanent and expressive is

Back 1

STONE

Front 2

The problem from the start was not so much how to leave holes in the sides . . . as to how to finish the buildingat the

Back 2

FINISH

Front 3

Whatever its elaboration, the _____________________ and _____________________ is the fundamentalform used in buildings all over the world. (one point for each blank).

Back 3

POST, LINTEL

Front 4

Then houses moved upwards. The addition of an upper floor or balcony required the construction of a____________________, either internal or external.

Back 4

STAIR

Front 5

Further refinements came with the development of ways of regulating _____________________ .

Back 5

TEMPERATURE

Front 6

[Brunelleschi’s] Foundling Hospital of 1421, simple and serene, with graceful arcades of___________________-headed arches above slim Corinthian columns, plain rectangular windows directly abovethe center of each arch and simple triangular pediment, was another inaugural building of the Renaissance.

Back 6

ROUND

Front 7

[Brunelleschi’s] Pazzi Chapel, entered through a tall arch in the loggia, was a revolutionary____________________ – no longer a nave and aisles, but a square covered by a dome.

Back 7

SHAPE

Front 8

These men [Alberti, Serlio, di Girogio, Palladio, Vignola, Romano] were no longer master masons, howeverbrilliant; they were ____________________. Architecture was no longer the continuation of a practical tradition,handed on through masons’ lodges; it was a literary idea.

Back 8

SCHOLARS

Front 9

A new concept of spatial relationships had been made possible by the discovery of ____________________by the Florentine painters in about 1425, or possibly by Brunelleschi himself.

Back 9

PERSPECTIVE

Front 10

Leon Battista Alberti’s book] De Re Aedificatoria (On Architecture) begun in the 1440s and published in 1485,was the first ____________________ book to be printed.

Back 10

ARCHITECTURAL

Front 11

[Alberti] explained the theory of ____________________ based on the harmony of numbers and usedEuclidean geometry to lend authority to the use of basic shapes . . . working out ideal proportions.

Back 11

beauty

Front 12

7. Vitruvius, in Book III of De Architectura, had suggested that a building should reflect the proportions of the____________________ figure, and Leonardo da Vinci developed this idea in his famous drawing relating[SAME WORD] proportions to the ideal shapes – the square and the circle.

Back 12

human

Front 13

In the Palazzo Rucellai (1446-57), Alberti used different ____________________ for different floors – Doric,Ionic and Corinthian – as the Romans had done on the Colosseum.

Back 13

orders

Front 14

If the outside of a Renaissance palace was forbidding, once inside the ____________________ all wasdifferent; the prison-like exterior gave way to a scenario for gracious, hospitable and elegant living for very richpeople.

Back 14

courtyard

Front 15

[Bramante’s] “Tempietto” is consciously modeled on the ancient ____________________ Temple of Vesta[in Tivoli].

Back 15

roman

Front 16

Bramante’s remarkable achievement [in “The Tempietto”] was that, while the proportions of this building werein such harmony that it seemed that nothing could be added or subtracted without ruining the____________________ , its original conception has proved immensely successful.

Back 16

whole

Front 17

[Bramante’s original plan [for St. Peter’s Basilica] . . . was a Greek ____________________ superimposedon a square with a central hemispherical dome supported on four massive piers.

Back 17

cross

Front 18

What was Michelangelo’s contribution [to the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica] ? With a sculptor’s eye for thethree-dimensional, he bypassed the contemporary preoccupation with ____________________ to open up newconcepts of scale and space.

Back 18

proportion

Front 19

[At the Laurentian Library, Michelangelo] made no attempt to re-create the balanced proportions of theRenaissance. On the contrary, he ____________________ the disparity of the two elements by running a longlow room off the upper part of a high, narrow block.

Back 19

exaggerated

Front 20

Another Michelangelo hallmark, to be widely adopted by Palladio and others, was the creation of____________________ orders (columns running up through two or more storeys).

Back 20

giant

Front 21

In fact, [Giulio Romano] expended as much ____________________ exertion on breaking the rules as he didin keeping them.

Back 21

intellectual

Front 22

The third center of Renaissance architecture was ____________________ and its surrounding region.

Back 22

Venice

Front 23

In his Villa Capra (Rotonda) near Vicenza (1565-59), a symmetrical building, [Palladio] created an ideal placefor a ____________________ purpose.

Back 23

secular

Front 24

With the Basilica (Palazzo della Ragione) in Vicenza (1549), Palladio gave Europe one of its most populararchitectural motifs, the Palladian motif, a central arched ____________________ or opening flanked by a flattoppedwindow on each side.

Back 24

window

Front 25

Italian Renaissance forms were ____________________ in crossing over the Alps.

Back 25

slow

Front 26

Nationalism was not the only thing working against the import of Italian ways from the sixteenth to theeighteenth century: there was the question of ____________________ .

Back 26

religion

Front 27

At first glance, the symmetry of [Domenico da Cortona’s Chateau du Chambord’s] plan seems perfectlyrespectable from a Renaissance point of view . . . but at Chambord, two-thirds of the entry____________________ is just a screen, and it is only the central block . . . which is actually the living quartersfor the family.

Back 27

façade

Front 28

Roofs were very ____________________ to the French, one kind of roof is even called after the architectFrançois Mansart – the mansard roof with a steep boxy side to it that allows the architect to stuff virtually a fullheight row of rooms into it.

Back 28

important

Front 29

But the coming and going of artists was not the only way in which Renaissance ideas filtered through to the restof Europe. Some ideas were expressed on paper, in the ____________________ -books that were beingproduced in abundance in Italy.

Back 29

pattern

Front 30

There is another basic drawback to the learning of styles from ____________________, namely that prints aretwo-dimensional.

Back 30

books

Front 31

The Louvre has a copy-plate flavor about it, even though [Claude] Perrault made history by treating a tall ground floor as a _____________________ on which to build a first-floor loggia of giant coupled columns.

Back 31

podium

Front 32

[At the Escorial Palace near Madrid], there was no room here for private Mannerist ____________________ orany hint of relaxation or pleasure.

Back 32

jokes

Front 33

Whereas in the Middle Ages the bulk of building was ecclesiastical, now [after the Renaissance], the stock of____________________ building started to increase.

Back 33

secular

Front 34

During this time in England, compact but sizeable houses mushroomed, often built to house the rich ______________________ .

Back 34

merchants

Front 35

. During this time in England, compact but sizeable houses mushroomed, often built to house the rich____________________ .

Back 35

merchants

Front 36

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ____________________ got larger and larger, until ofanother [Robert] Smythson house it could be said “Hardwick Hall, More glass than wall.”

Back 36

windows

Front 37

Now, in sixteenth-century Spain, experiments in the development of new ____________________ types weretaking place.

Back 37

stair

Front 38

In the seventeenth century, Holland was the place for the mature creation of Renaissance town____________________ on a large scale

Back 38

housing

Front 39

“The outward ornaments,” wrote [Inigo Jones], “ought to be solid, proportionable according to rules,____________________ and unaffected.”

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masculine